All eyes are on the Scottish referendum today as Scots decide whether to stay in the UK or become an independent nation. A high turnout is expected and the results won’t be known until the early hours of Friday morning. The suspense until then resonates all too well with people in Quebec who remember the referendums of 1980 and 1995.

After more than 150 years of search efforts, Prime Minister Harper announced today that a lost ship from the mysterious Franklin expedition has been discovered. Using Parks Canada’s newly acquired underwater vehicle, the searchers picked up sonar images of a shipwreck which they believe to be either HMS Erebus or HMS Terror.